Apartheid

Apartheid ended in South Africa well over a decade ago, but its legacy is everywhere. In East Africa, I was working with local Africans and though there was a divide, it was not between blacks and white, but between the poor locals on the one hand and the students (both African and European) on the other. On this tour you can't really escape the divide. All the people on the truck are white, and the two drivers and the cook who all sit seperately at the front of the truck are black.

I think the biggest divide is economic. We are in a continent where 60% of the population earn a dollar a day or less, and you cant really escape the divide this creates as a westerner. We are staying in relatively basic accomodation - tents, and just eating local food, but still there is an ocean of difference in that for example we would think nothing of spending a dollar on a coffee.